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Flatline: Public healthcare fails in most provinces because of poor leadership in hospitals and at provincial government, decaying infrastructure and overworked staff. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images
BARBARA HOGAN

Department of Health

The department has tried to turn the health system around but it’s plagued by inefficiency, staff shortages, dismal leadership and governance failures

  • Chris Bateman
8 min read
The Springboks will be hoping to erase the memories of the 2016 year-end tour horror show when they take on giant slayers Ireland on Saturday
ANC

SACP: Free South Africa from Guptas and Ruperts to protect the country’s sovereignty

SACP deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila also lauded the achievements of late Cuban Revolution icon Fidel Castro.

  • Govan Whittles
2 min read
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BALEKA MBETE

Six candidates vie to succeed Zuma as ANC president

Zuma is not among the six and isn’t expected to seek re-election, the party’s secretary general Gwede Mantashe said.

  • Amogelang Mbatha 1
2 min read
AFRICAN UNION

AU calls for pan-African response to Mali jihad

As French-led intervention exposes weakness in collective African leadership, summit has acknowledgeg the need for greater Ecowas presence.

  • Tim Murithi
3 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS YOUTH LEAGUE

ANC in North West, W Cape behind Mbeki

The African National Congress (ANC) in the North West has come out in support of President Thabo Mbeki to retain his position as the party’s president, the South African…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read